Genesis 30
1 And Rachel sees that she has not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and says to Jacob, “Give me sons, and if there is none—I die.”
Cernens autem Rachel quod infecunda esset, invidit sorori suae, et ait marito suo: Da mihi liberos, alioquin moriar.
2 And Jacob’s anger burns against Rachel, and he says, “Am I in stead of God who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
Cui iratus respondit Iacob: Num pro Deo ego sum, qui privavit te fructu ventris tui?
3 And she says, “Behold, my handmaid Bilhah, go in to her, and she bears on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her”;
At illa: Habeo, inquit, famulam Balam: ingredere ad illam, ut pariat super genua mea, et habeam ex illa filios.
4 and she gives Bilhah her maidservant to him for a wife, and Jacob goes in to her;
Deditque illi Balam in coniugium: quae,
5 and Bilhah conceives, and bears a son to Jacob,
ingresso ad se viro, concepit, et peperit filium.
6 and Rachel says, “God has decided for me, and has also listened to my voice, and gives a son to me”; therefore she has called his name Dan.
Dixitque Rachel: Iudicavit mihi Dominus, et exaudivit vocem meam, dans mihi filium. et idcirco appellavit nomen eius, Dan.
7 And Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, conceives again, and bears a second son to Jacob,
Rursumque Bala concipiens, peperit alterum,
8 and Rachel says, “With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, indeed, I have prevailed”; and she calls his name Napthali.
pro quo ait Rachel: Comparavit me Dominus cum sorore mea, et invalui: vocavitque eum, Nephthali.
9 And Leah sees that she has ceased from bearing, and she takes Zilpah her maidservant, and gives her to Jacob for a wife;
Sentiens Lia quod parere desiisset, Zelpham ancillam suam marito tradidit.
10 and Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bears a son to Jacob,
Qua post conceptum edente filium,
11 and Leah says, “A troop is coming”; and she calls his name Gad.
dixit: Feliciter. et idcirco vocavit nomen eius, Gad.
12 And Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, bears a second son to Jacob,
Peperit quoque Zelpha alterum.
13 and Leah says, “Because of my happiness, for daughters have pronounced me blessed”; and she calls his name Asher.
Dixitque Lia: Hoc pro beatitudine mea: Beatam quippe me dicent mulieres. propterea appellavit eum, Aser.
14 And Reuben goes in the days of wheat-harvest, and finds love-apples in the field, and brings them to his mother Leah, and Rachel says to Leah, “Please give to me of the love-apples of your son.”
Egressus autem Ruben tempore messis triticeae in agrum, reperit mandragoras: quas matri Liae detulit. Dixitque Rachel: Da mihi partem de mandragoris filii tui.
15 And she says to her, “Is your taking my husband a little thing, that you have also taken the love-apples of my son?” And Rachel says, “He therefore lies with you tonight, for your son’s love-apples.”
Illa respondit: Parumne tibi videtur quod praeripueris maritum mihi, nisi etiam mandragoras filii mei tuleris? Ait Rachel: Dormiat tecum hac nocte pro mandragoris filii tui.
16 And Jacob comes in from the field at evening; and Leah goes to meet him and says, “You come in to me, for [in] hiring I have hired you with my son’s love-apples”; and he lies with her during that night.
Redeuntique ad vesperam Iacob de agro, egressa est in occursum eius Lia, et ait: Ad me, inquit, intrabis: quia mercede conduxi te pro mandragoris filii mei. Dormivitque cum ea nocte illa.
17 And God listens to Leah, and she conceives, and bears a son to Jacob, a fifth,
Et exaudivit Deus preces eius: concepitque et peperit filium quintum,
18 and Leah says, “God has given my hire, because I have given my maidservant to my husband”; and she calls his name Issachar.
et ait: Dedit Deus mercedem mihi, quia dedi ancillam meam viro meo. appellavitque nomen eius, Issachar.
19 And Leah conceives again, and she bears a sixth son to Jacob,
Rursum Lia concipiens, peperit sextum filium,
20 and Leah says, “God has endowed me—a good dowry; this time my husband dwells with me, for I have borne six sons to him”; and she calls his name Zebulun;
et ait: Dotavit me Deus dote bona: etiam hac vice mecum erit maritus meus, eo quod genuerim ei sex filios: et idcirco appellavit nomen eius, Zabulon.
21 and afterward she has borne a daughter, and calls her name Dinah.
Post quem peperit filiam, nomine Dinam.
22 And God remembers Rachel, and God listens to her, and opens her womb,
Recordatus quoque Dominus Rachelis, exaudivit eam, et aperuit vulvam eius.
23 and she conceives and bears a son, and says, “God has gathered up my reproach”;
Quae concepit, et peperit filium, dicens: Abstulit Deus opprobrium meum.
24 and she calls his name Joseph, saying, “YHWH is adding to me another son.”
Et vocavit nomen eius, Ioseph, dicens: Addat mihi Dominus filium alterum.
25 And it comes to pass, when Rachel has borne Joseph, that Jacob says to Laban, “Send me away, and I go to my place, and to my land;
Nato autem Ioseph, dixit Iacob socero suo: Dimitte me ut revertar in patriam meam, et ad terram meam.
26 give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and I go; for you have known my service which I have served you.”
Da mihi uxores, et liberos meos, pro quibus servivi tibi, ut abeam: tu vero nosti servitutem qua servivi tibi.
27 And Laban says to him, “Now if I have found grace in your eyes—I have observed diligently that YHWH blesses me for your sake.”
Ait illi Laban: Inveniam gratiam in conspectu tuo: experimento didici, quia benedixerit mihi Deus propter te:
28 He also says, “Define your hire to me, and I give.”
constitue mercedem tuam quam dem tibi.
29 And he says to him, “You have known that which I have served you [in], and that which your substance was with me;
At ille respondit: Tu nosti quo modo servierim tibi, et quanta in manibus meis fuerit possessio tua.
30 for [it is] little which you have had at my appearance, and it breaks forth into a multitude, and YHWH blesses you at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for my own house?”
Modicum habuisti antequam venirem ad te, et nunc dives effectus es: benedixitque tibi Deus ad introitum meum. iustum est igitur ut aliquando provideam etiam domui meae.
31 And he says, “What do I give to you?” And Jacob says, “You do not give me anything; if you do this thing for me, I turn back; I have delight; I watch your flock;
Dixitque Laban: Quid tibi dabo? At ille ait: Nihil volo: sed si feceris quod postulo, iterum pascam, et custodiam pecora tua.
32 I pass through all your flock today to turn aside every speckled and spotted sheep from there, and every brown sheep among the lambs, and speckled and spotted among the goats—and it has been my hire;
Gyra omnes greges tuos, et separa cunctas oves varias, et sparso vellere; quodcumque furvum, et maculosum, variumque fuerit, tam in ovibus quam in capris, erit merces mea.
33 and my righteousness has answered for me in the day to come, when it comes in for my hire before your face—everyone which is not speckled and spotted among [my] goats, and brown among [my] lambs—it is stolen with me.”
Respondebitque mihi cras iustitia mea, quando placiti tempus advenerit coram te: et omnia quae non fuerint varia, et maculosa, et furva, tam in ovibus quam in capris, furti me argues.
34 And Laban says, “Behold, O that it were according to your word”;
Dixitque Laban: Gratum habeo quod petis.
35 and he turns aside during that day the striped and the spotted male goats, and all the speckled and the spotted female goats, everyone that [has] white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he gives into the hand of his sons,
Et separavit in die illa capras, et oves, et hircos, et arietes varios, atque maculosos: cunctum autem gregem unicolorem, id est albi, et nigri velleris, tradidit in manu filiorum suorum.
36 and sets a journey of three days between himself and Jacob; and Jacob is feeding the rest of the flock of Laban.
Et posuit spatium itineris trium dierum inter se et generum, qui pascebat reliquos greges eius.
37 And Jacob takes to himself a rod of fresh poplar and almond and plane-tree, and peels in them white peelings, making bare the white that [is] on the rods,
Tollens ergo Iacob virgas populeas virides, et amygdalinas, et ex platanis, ex parte decorticavit eas: detractisque corticibus, in his, quae spoliata fuerant, candor apparuit: illa vero quae integra fuerant, viridia permanserunt: atque in hunc modum color effectus est varius.
38 and sets up the rods which he has peeled in the gutters in the watering troughs (where the flock comes to drink), in front of the flock, that they may conceive in their coming to drink;
Posuitque eas in canalibus, ubi effundebatur aqua: ut cum venissent greges ad bibendum, ante oculos haberent virgas, et in aspectu earum conciperent.
39 and the flocks conceive at the rods, and the flock bears striped, speckled, and spotted ones.
Factumque est ut in ipso calore coitus, oves intuerentur virgas, et parerent maculosa, et varia, et diverso colore respersa.
40 And Jacob has parted the lambs, and he puts the face of the flock toward the striped, also all the brown in the flock of Laban, and he sets his own droves by themselves, and has not set them near Laban’s flock.
Divisitque gregem Iacob, et posuit virgas in canalibus ante oculos arietum: erant autem alba et nigra quaeque, Laban: cetera vero, Iacob, separatis inter se gregibus.
41 And it has come to pass, whenever the strong ones of the flock conceive, that Jacob sets the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, to cause them to conceive by the rods,
Igitur quando primo tempore ascendebantur oves, ponebat Iacob virgas in canalibus aquarum ante oculos arietum et ovium, ut in earum contemplatione conciperent:
42 and when the flock is feeble, he does not set [them]; and the feeble ones have been Laban’s, and the strong ones Jacob’s.
quando vero serotina admissura erat, et conceptus extremus, non ponebat eas. Factaque sunt ea quae erant serotina, Laban: et quae primi temporis, Iacob.
43 And the man increases very exceedingly, and has many flocks, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and donkeys.
Ditatusque est homo ultra modum, et habuit greges multos, ancillas et servos, camelos et asinos.
